He said, "It's high concept but I do want to ground it as a family sitcom".

Roseanne was a family sitcom, based on loud and large blue-collar parents.

The duo wanted to write a "family sitcoms", with the Bush family.

It seemed like a family sitcom, but it wasn't.

This was the first TV character to be killed off in a family sitcom.

"The family sitcom has always had a cyclical history," he said.

He then revised this idea and made it more cheery, taking on the structure of a family sitcom.

But in the early weeks of the new television season, something completely unexpected has been happening: viewers are coming home to the family sitcom.

But as it evolved, the show took the family sitcom on a radical course correction.

THE talk of the network television industry is not the next family sitcom or cop drama, but football.